Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keeping an eye out for newsworthy feats of the 3,000-man press corps (TIME, July 21, 1952). Our National Affairs section reported the first H-bomb explosion, but it was in Press that we later described the official bungling in the release of stories and pictures of the blast (TIME, April 12, 1954). Occasionally, we spot a hoax passed off as news, e.g., the widely printed story of a girl who went into a hypnotic trance when a crooner sang a love song. Our correspondent traced the whole affair to a pressagent's brain (TIME...
...first A-bomb which shattered Hiroshima struck out at its victims over about 7 square miles. Compared with the TNT blockbuster, this primitive nuclear weapon constituted a "quantum jump" in the instruments of war. On November 1, 1952, a much more powerful bomb spread its blast-heat punch over 300 square miles. This was Quantum Jump No. 2. The world did not have long to wait for No. 3. It came on March 1, 1954, with the fallout of radioactive particles over thousands of square miles of the Pacific. Quantum Jump No. 3-the lethal radioactive fallout-is still...
...After exposing 42 common drugs to blast and radiation during the 1953 Nevada A-bomb tests, the Food & Drug Administration released its findings: all the drugs were unharmed except two-insulin suffered a 10% loss of potency. Vitamin B a loss of 50%. Added the FDA: any drug found in an undamaged container, 1,000 yards or more from ground zero, can be considered safe for immediate...
...Capp and Kim Karter will be the Freshman Smoker's drawing-cards this year, and members of the Smoker Committee say that tonight's blast will be among the best that ever rocked Memorial Hall...
Their report's central thesis is "the value of a sound liberal education as a preparation for life and also as an educational basis for later vocational training." With this criterion, the authors blast away at students, teachers, colleges and medical schools alike. Present medical school admission requirements, they contend, attract a vocationally oriented group of students to liberal arts colleges. Many of these students have little interest in courses which do not obviously contribute to their occupational objectives. The students are not entirely to blame, however. Medical schools, for instance, contribute to overspecialization by suggesting lists of "recommended" science...